Yahoo! Messenger wins CNET Webware 100 Award
June 18, 2007 on 2:03 pm | In News | 20 Comments
Today, CNET announced that Yahoo! Messenger is a Webware 100 Award winner in the Communications category.
Yahoo! Mail is also a winner in the same category.
The “Webware 100″ Awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. Webware.com editors received and reviewed thousands of entries. Finalists were selected and featured in an online voting poll, where users voted and ultimately selected 100 winners in 10 categories. See the complete list of WebWare 100 winners.
Thanks to all the Yahoo! Messenger users and CNET readers that voted for us!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Congratulations Yahoo! Messenger.
Comment by Venom — June 18, 2007 #
Hmm.. great job,… now all you have to do is get it to work right, and it would be great!
Comment by Jeremy — June 18, 2007 #
Oh yeah.. how is that MAC version coming?
Comment by Jeremy — June 18, 2007 #
Thanks now how do I get it to work right?
Comment by shundra — June 18, 2007 #
congratulations Yahoo! Messenger & Mail Team
You guys really deserve It
Comment by The Dark Knight — June 18, 2007 #
how it going with Yahoo! Messenger for Vista)
could we have a date on when this will come out?
this summer this fall this winter 2 weeks for now 3 weeks for now next year when when when?
Comment by david — June 19, 2007 #
congratulations Yahoo! Messenger & Mail Team well done
Comment by david — June 19, 2007 #
according to wikipedia yahoo vista for messenger will be released on july 2nd along with the integrated mail guess will have too wait and see what happens only yahoo knows for sure
Comment by stevo — June 19, 2007 #
you obviously can’t trust wikipedia. As users are free to edit, you can see on the http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo%21_Messenger&action=history
page that it was last edited by someone from romania. Now i don’t believe yahoo to have any employees in romania. So thats some misinformation that yahoo needs to fix, if it bothers to.
Its almost through to the end of june, yet no sign of changes in the way yahoo chat works. Same ol’ bots, same ol’ slow chatroom login (requiring multiple join packets to be sent, eventually only one join packet gets accepted by yahoo chat server).
I think they’ll wait till the very last day of June and make the changes at the last hour. I guess they just love teasing their users. *laughs*
Comment by Rick — June 19, 2007 #
Infact the wikipedia post was edited by some user called
Kolja21 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kolja21) .
And the following changes were made on 16th june, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahoo%21_Messenger&diff=138736253&oldid=138459540
You can clearly see its been edited recently. So I wouldn’t trust that information at all. Unless its posted on yahoo blog its not official.
Comment by Rick — June 19, 2007 #
could you add a “notify” feature on ym for vista so that you get notified (buzzed or something) when a certain person comes online?
btw, when do you plan to release it?
Comment by irene — June 20, 2007 #
hey rick , we dont have any employeers at yahoo, i guess ..we are just lucky
Comment by pascalin — June 20, 2007 #
LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Robin — June 20, 2007 #
It sure would be nice to hear some actual updates from the Yahoo team.. I mean, isnt that why we read this blog anyway? Thats why I do.. i could care less about the toolbar features, and whatever award yahoo has won. Obviously the users arent happy with the software, and it needs to be fixed, and it needs to be fixed fast. Im also tired of hearing how small the dev. team is for messenger. You know Yahoo makes a TON of money off the ads they force us to view in the chat rooms, so they could afford to bring a few more people to the team to get things done! Maybe we should just petition Google to make their own chat service, then we wouldnt have to wait for Yahoo to get its act together..
Comment by Jeremy — June 20, 2007 #
First, in response to The Dark Knight… How the heck does the Yahoo! Messenger Team deserve this? They can’t even keep the frickin’ program working! Those congrats to the Yahoo! Mail Team. I got no complaints with Yahoo! Mail.
Now for my main comment… How the heck did this even happen? As I know Sarah and another gentlemen at Yahoo! commented on, they acknowledge how fustrated and dissapointed users are with their messanger program, so how is it they get an award for best webware when the cursed thing doesn’t even work half the time! Honestly, I want an answer to this.
Comment by Janus — June 20, 2007 #
irene,
You can have a notification when a user comes online with WackyB Status Alert plugin, you get get it here: http://gallery.yahoo.com/apps/513/locale/en lets you assign a sound of your choice to each user for both on/off line and when you get a new message.. (each friend can have their own sound) Better yet you can have their status change spoken to you!
If you only want notifications from one user.. simply set all the defaults to no sound and no voice.. then from the custom user tab select a friend and configure the sounds… Hope this helps
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Comment by Andy — June 20, 2007 #
Congratulations good job
ps. when will Messenger for vista be out please tell
Comment by Ethan — June 20, 2007 #
thanks andy, it helps. although i would have preferred if ym had a feature like that built in, that’s why i suggested it.
Comment by irene — June 21, 2007 #
Great!!!
Comment by Vladimir — June 27, 2007 #
maybe u got a place in top100 but as many say the messenger is so bloated. the memory use is so bad. as we speak i am logged in as it is my favorite messenger and it uses more than 50megs of ram. that is a lot considering i haven’t used voice, file transfer etc which seem to skyrocket the ram usage going well past 100megs. i also must hack the registry to be able to use multiple instances of it. the java games are slow and break easily. not to mention the more and more vulnerabilities which are discovered. i can’t say i don’t like the client but u should look more into its efficiency and security.
Comment by HalfHuman — June 27, 2007 #